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If you're looking for free API access, Google offers access to Gemini for free, including for gemini-2.5-pro with thinking turned on. The limit is... quite high

If you're looking for free API access, Google offers access to Gemini for free, including for gemini-2.5-pro with thinking turned on. The limit is... quite high, as I'm running some benchmarking and haven't hit the limit yet. Open weight models like DeepSeek R1 and GPT-OSS are also made available with free API access from various inference providers and hardware manufacturers.

gooosle 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 pro free limit is 100 requests per day. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits
- tomrod 1y ago
  Doesn't it swap to a lower power model after that?
  - acjacobson 1y ago
    Not automatically but you can switch to a lower power model and access more free requests. I think Gemini 2.5 Flash is 250 requests per day.
- panarky 1y ago
  I'm getting consistently good results with Gemini CLI and the free 100 requests per day and 6 million tokens per day. Note that you'll need to either authorize with a Google Account or with an API key from AI Studio, just be sure the API key is from an account where billing is disabled. Also note that there are other rate limits for tokens per request and tokens per minute on the free plan that effectively prevent you from using the whole million token context window. It's good to exit or /clear frequently so every request doesn't resubmit your entire history as context or you'll use up the token limits long before you hit 100 requests in a day.
chiwilliams 1y ago
I'm assuming it isn't sensitive for your purposes, but note that Google will train on these interactions, but not if you pay.
- unnouinceput 1y ago
  I agree, Google is definitely the champion of respecting your privacy. Will definitely not train their model on your data if you pay them. I mean you should definitely just film yourself and give them everything, access to your files, phone records, even bank accounts. Just make sure to pay them those measly $200 and absolutely they will not share that data with anybody.
  - lern_too_spel 1y ago
    You're thinking of Facebook. A lot of companies run on Gmail and Google Docs (easy to verify with `dig MX [bigco].com`), and they would not if Google shared that data with anybody.
    - d1sxeyes 1y ago
      It’s not really in either Meta or Google’s interests to share that data. What they do is to build super detailed profiles of you and what you’re likely to click on, so they can charge more money for ad impressions.
      - lern_too_spel 1y ago
        Meta certainly shares the data internally. https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks...
      - grumbelbart2 1y ago
        LLMs add a new thread model. If trained on your data, they might very well leak some of its information in some future chat. Meta, Alphabet might not want that, but it is impossible to completely avoid with current architectures.

gooosle 1y ago

Gemini 2.5 pro free limit is 100 requests per day. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits

tomrod 1y ago
Doesn't it swap to a lower power model after that?
- acjacobson 1y ago
  Not automatically but you can switch to a lower power model and access more free requests. I think Gemini 2.5 Flash is 250 requests per day.
panarky 1y ago
I'm getting consistently good results with Gemini CLI and the free 100 requests per day and 6 million tokens per day. Note that you'll need to either authorize with a Google Account or with an API key from AI Studio, just be sure the API key is from an account where billing is disabled. Also note that there are other rate limits for tokens per request and tokens per minute on the free plan that effectively prevent you from using the whole million token context window. It's good to exit or /clear frequently so every request doesn't resubmit your entire history as context or you'll use up the token limits long before you hit 100 requests in a day.

chiwilliams 1y ago

I'm assuming it isn't sensitive for your purposes, but note that Google will train on these interactions, but not if you pay.

unnouinceput 1y ago
I agree, Google is definitely the champion of respecting your privacy. Will definitely not train their model on your data if you pay them. I mean you should definitely just film yourself and give them everything, access to your files, phone records, even bank accounts. Just make sure to pay them those measly $200 and absolutely they will not share that data with anybody.
- lern_too_spel 1y ago
  You're thinking of Facebook. A lot of companies run on Gmail and Google Docs (easy to verify with `dig MX [bigco].com`), and they would not if Google shared that data with anybody.
  - d1sxeyes 1y ago
    It’s not really in either Meta or Google’s interests to share that data. What they do is to build super detailed profiles of you and what you’re likely to click on, so they can charge more money for ad impressions.
    - lern_too_spel 1y ago
      Meta certainly shares the data internally. https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks...
    - grumbelbart2 1y ago
      LLMs add a new thread model. If trained on your data, they might very well leak some of its information in some future chat. Meta, Alphabet might not want that, but it is impossible to completely avoid with current architectures.